- 1. When was Edith Wharton born?
A) 1880
B) 1862
C) 1850
D) 1872
- 2. In which city was Edith Wharton born?
A) Chicago
B) Boston
C) Philadelphia
D) New York City
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Edith Wharton win in 1921?
A) National Book Award
B) Nobel Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Booker Prize
- 4. In which year did Edith Wharton become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A) 1980
B) 1921
C) 1900
D) 1940
- 5. In what year did Edith Wharton pass away?
A) 1937
B) 1950
C) 1985
D) 1910
- 6. Which of these authors was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Henry James
- 7. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her adult life after leaving the United States?
A) Italy
B) Germany
C) England
D) France
- 8. What was Edith Wharton's birth name before she married?
A) Edith Newbold Jones
B) Edith Mary Smith
C) Edith Elizabeth Taylor
D) Edith Anne Brown
- 9. In what year did Edith Wharton publish her first major novel, 'The House of Mirth'?
A) 1920
B) 1905
C) 1955
D) 1880
- 10. Which war influenced Edith Wharton's writing and led to her humanitarian efforts?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War I
C) American Civil War
D) War of 1812
- 11. What was the name of the estate in Massachusetts where Edith Wharton designed and built her home, The Mount?
A) Concord
B) Cambridge
C) Salem
D) Lenox
- 12. What was the title of Edith Wharton's first published book?
A) The Age of Innocence
B) Summer
C) The Decoration of Houses
D) Ethan Frome
- 13. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her childhood and young adulthood summers?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Aspen, Colorado
C) Miami, Florida
D) Newport, Rhode Island
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